Ray Donovan: Season 1, Episode 7 “New Birthday” (B+)
This show has such a foreboding, fantastic tone best evidenced by that final scene with Ray silently driving a naïve Marvin talking about his new birthday. Ray’s trip to Boston was full of those kinds of scenes, specifically Ray’s reunion with Gary, which took a dark turn after a peaceful start. Ray getting beaten up was also an unusual sight, but he handled it in stride, just like everything else. James Woods is a fantastic choice to play Patrick, who it seems is more than interested in Ray’s offer to come kill Mickey. He’s causing plenty of trouble for Sean, pitching an idea about exactly what happened to send Mickey to jail, and he’s not even getting along with Van, demanding money from him in exchange for the services he needs to provide to keep himself out of prison. Van’s resolve is worrisome, particularly because Ray’s contact tried to negotiate with him and is instead going to have to resort to ousting him from his job, and I’m certain that Van won’t go down without a fight. Marvin pushing Bridget after she confessed her love for him was unexpected, and it’s definitely something he’s goin to regret. It was an extremely serious ending after a much lighter plotline involving Abby, who it turns out is quite the troublemaker when she gets some alcohol in her, and who had a blast stealing expensive shoes just for fun and then flirting with Ray after he picked her up from the police station.
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